Increasing Phonemic Awareness with Lexia Reading Lessons

Summary of major survey results Based on the collected data, all students can deepen their understanding of phoneme recognition, especially in the identification and separation of pronunciation phonemes measured by DIBELS-ISF. During the six-week behavior research project, the control group and the target group were able not only to improve the overall DIBELS-ISF score but also to improve the number of correct answers to the phoneme probes. Subjects who received overall intervention through the Lexia program gained 23% higher profit than the control group.

Phoneme recognition Recognition of sounds (phonemes) constituting spontaneous words. This consciousness does not occur when children learn to speak; ability to speak and understand spoken language is not necessary; however phoneme recognition is important to learn to read. In the alphabet language, letters (and clusters of characters) represent phonemes; in order to learn correspondence between letters and sounds, we need to understand the concept of words consisting of phonemes.

Child facilities in phoneme recognition are closely related to later reading performance, but their precise role in these early stages is not fully understood. Phoneme recognition is the understanding and conscious recognition of children. In other words, speech consists of identifiable units such as spoken words, syllables, and sounds. Training studies have shown that phonemes can be taught to children 5 years old (Bradley & Bryant 1983; Lundberg, Frost, & Petersen 1988; Cunningham 1990; Bryne & Fielding-Barnsley 1991). In these studies, tiles (boxes) (Elkonin 1973) and language games are used to allow children to explicitly manipulate audio segments at the phoneme level.

Phonemes, the smallest unit of spoken language, combine to form syllables and words. Phoneme recognition is the ability of a student to concentrate on these phonemes in speech or words. According to the National Reading Group, teaching phonemes to children not only lacked attention to phoneme recognition, but also significantly improved the ability to read. Pinyin is the relationship between the letters (or combination of letters) of the written language and the single sound of the spoken language. In speech education, we use these relationships to read words and teach students how to spell them. The National Reading Group shows that systematic speech education can increase the success rate of children's learning and reading and that education has little or no education, which is more effective than education.